Chris Farris

So here is a knowledge-base article for Google to pickup. I recently converted by Residential Gateway to DMZPlus. I have a Linux box I use for my DHCP, DNS and Firewall. I placed all my Set-tops directly attached to the residential gateway (RG), and all my PCs behind my linux box. RG —- Linux Firewall —- PC & Laptops |—— Set-top(s) U-Verse has a “feature” where-by if a device on the network has too many connections it will tell the other computers on the network (assuming that PC in question is infected with a virus).

VMware Self-Service- Setting up mirrored folders for your Mac and virtual machine. This looks kick-ass. I wonder how the performance is.

I need to blog more about my nefarious methods by which I make Windows and Unix play nice, but this link today was invaluable in getting an Ubuntu server talking to our AD install at work. A few points of note: Step 3.1 should be preceeded by mv /etc/samba/smb.conf etc/samba/smb.conf-dist PAM settings work, but if you’re only doing one domain remove the %D from “template homedir”

AppleInsider | Microsoft’s Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage. The article posits two questions: Was MSFT trying to pull a hotmail and convert the service to its own products (like it did in the 90s when it converted the stable Unix Hotmail infrastructure to NT4) or was it sabotage by a disgruntled employee. I think it would be pretty damn hard to corrupt the systems, corrupt the data, and corrupt all the backups to the point that recovery isn’t possible.

So it seems like the anti-cloud fanatics are all popping open beers in celebration of MSFT’s failure to restore user data for T-Mobile’s sidekick. I’m not sure I’d blame clouds, cause I’m not sure I’d consider that T-Mobile service a cloud to begin with. Unless you consider your IMAP box at your ISP a cloud, or your corporate exchange server a cloud, or wiki a cloud. Sidekick is a service. Services go down.

Of course we could just stop storing so much damn data no one will ever use. 🙂 RAID’s Days May Be Numbered – www.enterprisestorageforum.com.

“When employees are too effective at hiding the consequences of bad management decisions, they act as enablers and do nobody any favors.” -Craig

I’ve not tested this as I don’t have a Win7 VM anywhere (yet). Cavet Emptor. VMware vSphere Client on Microsoft Windows 7! | Virtual Lifestyle.

British PM apologizes for treatment of gay code-breaker – CNN.com. No single man did more to win the war in Europe than Alan Turing, who is also the father of modern computing. The fact that closed-minded homophobic bigots caused him to take his life is a tragedy that must never be repeated! Kudos to Prime Minister Brown for acting quickly and decisively once the matter what brought to his attention, rather than trying to weigh its political consequences in the next election.

An excellent presentation by Georgia Tech’s Stephen Fleming on the economics and physics of Hydrogen as an alternate fuel. Presented at Dragon*Con.